Hmmm, I have marked the bad ST disk detective link as such and will ask the owner why it is down...
I have tried a version I have and it seems to do the same thing...
This is a strange bug, I wonder if it is STE related....
I will try again tomorrow.

I have found a version that works for me - transacting with the weapons trader now gives you the option of "list y/n" which then starts to list items a,b,c,d,e,f etc available for purchase, so it seems that this version works.

It is the Medway Boys 003 disk.

I bet the trading problem is a form of copy protection that the other crackers failed to notice.

RetroGamerUK wrote:I have found a version that works for me - transacting with the weapons trader now gives you the option of "list y/n" which then starts to list items a,b,c,d,e,f etc available for purchase, so it seems that this version works.

It is the Medway Boys 003 disk.

I bet the trading problem is a form of copy protection that the other crackers failed to notice.

You're right, RG. I can remember years ago, you could (apparently) make a working copy of this game, but then when you went to use it, well...you see the results.

Yes, that one works. But I was hoping for one that was not compressed that I could use on my 'hard drive' within TOS. I tried copying the files from the the Medway Boys disc to the hard drive, and run it from there, but it will not work. I guess I am SOL.

Thanks for the replies. I guess I can play it from the Disc just as easily.

WillieSea wrote:Yes, that one works. But I was hoping for one that was not compressed that I could use on my 'hard drive' within TOS. I tried copying the files from the the Medway Boys disc to the hard drive, and run it from there, but it will not work. I guess I am SOL.

Thanks for the replies. I guess I can play it from the Disc just as easily.

I know that D-Bug made many of their releases HD installable even without the Dbug ULS thingy, as for making other cracks work from HD I am in the dark.

You can transmogrificate that disk image into a real disk though should you wish to play it on your real ST...

I know I'm bringing up an ancient thread from almost three years back, but I'm running the HD-adapter version ppera made. It also has the issue with the anti-piracy protection in shoppes at all places in the game. Is there any fix for your HD install version? After having played the NES version, I really want to get the full experience from the computer version.

Hmm, same here - I d/l'ed ppera's version as well - from advice from another messagethread. I unzipped it to my STacy's SatanDisk drive. It will start, show nice extra screenthat looks like scan of the box cover, with TOS version and memory, then starts thegame, but as soon as the intro is over, it crashes back to the desktop, and I have toreboot.

I can copy it to a floppy and it does play from there - but like you, the copy protectionkicks in and I can't transact with anyone in any towns.

Ppera, do you have a version that will play from hard disk OR SatanDisk, and will letyou get around the copy protection?

Ultima III should run with ImgRunner, as it uses regular GEMDOS file access, and not direct floppy HW access.No need for any conversion, just run proper ImgRunner version according to your TOS version.

It seems that there is a lot of not (well) cracked games in GameBase ST. I really can not test all those games thoroughly. Removing protection today is not big deal, with help of Steem Debug. If you can post me some gamestate save by problematic trade places it will help to do it faster...

ppera wrote:Ultima III should run with ImgRunner, as it uses regular GEMDOS file access, and not direct floppy HW access.No need for any conversion, just run proper ImgRunner version according to your TOS version.

It seems that there is a lot of not (well) cracked games in GameBase ST. I really can not test all those games thoroughly. Removing protection today is not big deal, with help of Steem Debug. If you can post me some gamestate save by problematic trade places it will help to do it faster...

Hi, thanks for the reply.

I don't even know what ImgRunner is...

You have to actually go into the towns and talk to the merchants. When you go into a town, yourgame is also saved.

ImgRunner or Image Runner is not for emulators but for real Atari ST(E) machines. It mounts floppy image files located on hard disk as logical drive A (floppy). A lot of games runs with... It even deactivates all your resident SW from partition C (only while running game), so usage may be pretty simple. Just don't ask me how to install aplication for specific file extension (ST and MSA in this case) in TOS 1.04

RetroGamerUK wrote:I have found a version that works for me - transacting with the weapons trader now gives you the option of "list y/n" which then starts to list items a,b,c,d,e,f etc available for purchase, so it seems that this version works.

It is the Medway Boys 003 disk.

I bet the trading problem is a form of copy protection that the other crackers failed to notice.

Hi RetroGamerUK, can you please post a link to that disk? I've (by my count) tried 4 versions ofUltima 3 so far and all give the merchant warning and won't let you transact with them.

Here is cracked, hard disk, Desktop runnable (from floppy too, of course) Ultima III. Both executables - for color and for monochrome are cracked, so may do shopping - called transfer in game, what took some time from me to guess how to enter 'shops'

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Ha, this reminds me of Ultima IV on the 8bit. If you just copied the disk, it'd skip a track of essentially bad sectors, and if that track was empty, you'd get 'orc is lightly wounded' no matter how many times you hit that orc, it'd always be lightly wounded.

The best is still Alternate Reality, where you'd get attacked by the FBI who were armed with "The Long Arm of the Law."now I want to play Ultima III... haven't played it since the 80s on the 8bit.